Multilingual Services Help Attract International Bookings
MARCH 17, 2009 - Open Hospitality, a global provider of hotel Internet marketing solutions, offers a variety of multilingual translation services. Communicating in the language of the consumer helps hotels to attract and increase online bookings. This flexibility enables Open Hospitality clients to target and speak to their particular sources of business. Additionally, hotels can effectively track all source of business activity via real-time online reporting.
Beyond presenting all website content including guest room descriptions, currencies and navigation in multiple languages, hotels can incorporate key messages and property data within Fact Pages. These pages are translated and search engine optimized into any desired language, including but not limited to: Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Each Fact Page guides the reader back to the reservation step. Throughout Open Hospitality reservation services consumers navigate via country flag icons representing their language and currency.
'We continually seek ways to optimize online hotel visibility and their booking revenues. Open Hospitality expanded its Internet marketing services and incorporated translation and currency capabilities into hotel websites,' noted David Millili, CEO of Open Hospitality. He added, 'Our goal is to provide hotels with the ability to attract and ultimately convert both international and domestic consumers by providing an effortless and logical method for making hotel reservations.'
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